Open Grotto — analytical frameworks Versioned, attributed, openly-contributed registry of Canadian policy primitives. https://opengrotto.ca/feed/analytical-frameworks.xml 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z Open Grotto https://opengrotto.ca Open Grotto registry feed generator Institutional Analysis and Development Framework https://opengrotto.ca/template/iad-framework 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z Open Grotto A multi-tiered conceptual map for studying how rules, biophysical conditions, and community attributes shape decisions in collective-action situations — particularly common-pool resource governance. The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving https://opengrotto.ca/template/bardach-eightfold 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z Open Grotto A practitioner-oriented eight-step procedure for structured policy analysis: define the problem, assemble evidence, construct alternatives, select criteria, project outcomes, confront trade-offs, decide, and tell the story. The path is iterative — analysts loop back as evidence reshapes the problem definition. Multiple Streams Framework https://opengrotto.ca/template/kingdon-multiple-streams 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z Open Grotto An agenda-setting framework that explains why some issues rise to government attention and others do not. Three independent streams — problems, policies, and politics — flow through the system; when they couple at moments of opening (policy windows), an issue moves onto the decision agenda. Policy entrepreneurs are the agents who couple the streams. Advocacy Coalition Framework https://opengrotto.ca/template/sabatier-advocacy-coalition 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z Open Grotto A framework for analyzing policy change over decade-plus time horizons within a policy subsystem. Actors aggregate into advocacy coalitions bound by shared belief systems; policy change emerges from coalition contestation, policy-oriented learning, and external (or internal) shocks. The framework presumes that beliefs, not interests alone, structure coalitions. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice (Five-Step Approach) https://opengrotto.ca/template/weimer-vining-five-step 2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z Open Grotto A welfare-economics-grounded five-step procedure for policy analysis: understand the problem (typically as a market failure or government failure), choose evaluation criteria, specify policy alternatives, predict and value impacts, and recommend the policy that best satisfies the criteria. The framework treats policy analysis as applied economics with explicit attention to the limits of both market and state remedies.